How is Blinkist making $120K/mo summarizing non-fiction books? – with Sebastian Klein

Sebastian Klein, Blinkist, European Founder, International Founders, Mobile Apps

Imagine I told you that there was a business that takes nonfiction books and not only summarizes them, but also makes them available by audio.

If I told you that was someone’s business idea, how much revenue would you assume that business made? Well, that’s what today’s guest did and we’ll find out about his revenue.

Sebastian Klein is the founder of Blinkist. It’s a mobile app that you can use to read summaries of your favorite books or have those summaries read to you.

 

Sebastian Klein

Blinkist

Sebastian Klein is a co-founder of Blinkist which offers summaries of great nonfiction books’ key insights in a made for mobile format.

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Let me ask you this. Imagine if I told you that there was a business that would take popular nonfiction books and the kind of nonfiction books that should be popular but people aren’t reading enough of–it takes all those books and it summarizes them. This app not only summarizes them, but makes them available by audio. So, if someone prefers to read them, they can just listen to them on their mobile phone.

If I told you that was someone’s business idea, how much revenue would you assume, would you say that business made? Well, that’s what today’s guest did. I’m going to ask him in a moment what kind of revenue he did. But first, I’m going to introduce you to Sebastian Klein. He is the founder of Blinkist. Blinkist does exactly as I described it to you. It’s a mobile app that you can use...

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